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Every now and then, we have what we call Ones and 0s parties on
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The major accomplishment of The Kindly Ones is the author's thoroughly successful ventriloquism of Dr. Aue, a performance that requires we abide this character in all of his true-believing, sadomasochistic, murderous horror or else the effort is subsumed into the usual safe moralizing provided by "balance."
December 2009 2009
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"The Bones of the Old Ones" is another of Thomas 'Punktown/Cthulhu mashups - this one a police procedural that sees homicide detective John Bell investigating the scene of a grisly, cult-related murder.
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If ever a novel justifies a "plodding style," The Kindly Ones is it, since it so accurately reflects Aue's bureaucratic soul.
Furies 2009
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My mom served these to all eight of us as we were growing up and called them “Hole in Ones”.
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If ever a novel justifies a "plodding style," The Kindly Ones is it, since it so accurately reflects Aue's bureaucratic soul.
Translated Texts 2010
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What makes me less enamored of the mythic method as employed in The Kindly Ones is precisely that it threatens to disrupt our "immersion" in Aue's fictional memoir, that it intrudes on the performance of Aue's narration a different kind of performance, one that makes us too conscious of the author -- Jonathan Littell -- as the puppeteer pulling Aue's strings.
Translated Texts 2010
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If ever a novel justifies a "plodding style," The Kindly Ones is it, since it so accurately reflects Aue's bureaucratic soul.
December 2009 2009
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The major accomplishment of The Kindly Ones is the author's thoroughly successful ventriloquism of Dr. Aue, a performance that requires we abide this character in all of his true-believing, sadomasochistic, murderous horror or else the effort is subsumed into the usual safe moralizing provided by "balance."
Translated Texts 2010
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What makes me less enamored of the mythic method as employed in The Kindly Ones is precisely that it threatens to disrupt our "immersion" in Aue's fictional memoir, that it intrudes on the performance of Aue's narration a different kind of performance, one that makes us too conscious of the author -- Jonathan Littell -- as the puppeteer pulling Aue's strings.
December 2009 2009
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